After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1215-07.htm

Published on Monday, December 15, 2003 by the New York Times

After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots
by Elisabeth Bumiller

 WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's Christmas card arrived in the capital's mailboxes last week with this suddenly apt quotation from Benjamin Franklin: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

Franklin made the remark at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to argue that because something as small as a sparrow's death comes to God's attention, clearly God has a voice in the affairs of men. Therefore, Franklin argued, a prayer should open the daily sessions held to write the founding document of the United States. (Franklin lost the argument, but his passage won a place in history.)

All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.

As a result, a lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war.
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[Faygo Kid]

1. He wishes it were the poor and dissenters

And exactly the same set-up; no chance to get away, drop 'em from nets, and blast away. What fun that would be for him! Again, no chance of escape or fighting back for his prey, though. Just like he has in mind for us in 2004. Cheney's "hunt" is very revealing. Wonder who his companions were? Think we'll ever know?

[G_j]

2. I can only guess that he does this kind

of thing on a regular basis. I'm not sure why this particular hunt got noticed.

[G_j]

3. standard MO

from pathological liars


""The birds don't go to waste, they go to hunger relief charities," Mr. Kellems said.

Mr. Kellems, however, said he could not provide the names or locations of any charities or soup kitchens that received the birds and did not know how they were prepared, when they were served and who in fact ate them."

why? Because it's BS?

[Moderator]

4. duplicate

This is posted both in LBN and the "Gun Dungeon" at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=270178 and http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=29140 respectively. Interested DUers are encouraged to discuss this story in one of the more relevant forums.